, 1887-09-01
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L4AS4 SI4s4u'1 - III Town.
Mr. John Huuting5ord OF upper Chin.
acum was i'll town today.
Ho for our new bauki Business irsti-
tutious are bound TO multiply from this
time on.
Peter Stoctand begins work this week
upon the new residence for Caurty And-
itor Dyer,
Interest in Port Townsend IS iuc7eaa.
ing rapidly, judging from the -ay in
quigies come il.
A Mr.. Davis Of Spraaua is in tom To-
day-looking about and making iL1uuiss
o. the country. lie is only one Of many
who are on the same mia5ion these days.
The special election for justice Of The
peace today was very quiet. Major Van
Bokkelen was elected over Il bert Biies,
by majority Of three out of 2l3 votes.
Crvilie Espey reiires from editorial
charge OF the Blaine journal, and viii
enter newspaper cfIice in Seattle. J.
W. Dorr takes his place on the Journal.
Mr. j. Fuerbaoh, the North Yakima
gentleman who invested sometime since
in Port Townsend real estate, has re-
turned, and viii probably engage in
business here.
Olympia is TO have the circus and the
Methodist conference both in ihe Same
week. Here is a CHARGE for our uugoiIy
contemporaries to speculate as to which
will prove the greater attractior..
Still the boom crowns! Oar folks
just watch it with all The interest OF a
market gardener coaxing his plants after
a spring shower. i water front. corner
lot in the business part of town--tor
sale cheap. Call at tie ARGUS agency.
BIG CUT.-Mr, Kendrick, superiuten-
dent OF the Had!ock saw mill, was in
town today. He Informed us ihat on
Friday the mill sawea 10000 feet--and
that without special picking of LOGS, ard
without extra men. This we believe IS
the largest cut yet for any single Il !! on
the Sound.
They had boat race at Discovery
yesterday, between the boats of tl7 lips
Sumntra, State of Maine ana Ju.. iat
Thompson, and Mr.. Smiths boat The
jeremiah Thompson's boat won hy thir-
teen minutes, five miles and return. Mr..
Smith was referee at the stake boat The
Nancy won was used fer champagne and
cigars. Opr informant says there was
quite an excitement, and that another
race viii take place rext Sunday at mid
night. G. ID. Kennedy. m7'e OF the
Jeremiah Thompson. aud y, ii. Thomp-
son, foreman of the wharf, we're referees
at starting point.
News was received this morning of the
death in Seattle of Mrs. H L. Yesler,
one Of the pioneers of that city. Mrs.
Yesler had seen the city OF choice grow
from nothing to its present splendid
proportions. She had walked devotedly
by her husbands side during all his
business ups and downs-and OF course
will be sadly missed by those who knew
her SO well, and specially by the be-
reaved husband whose life IS thus made
desolate in his old age, and in the finan-
cial prosperity that has crowned all his
years of toll. Both OF these good people
will have an honored place in the his
tory of Puget Sound
New BANK.-Messrs. c. Il. Clapp and
J. Feurbach are about to establish a
banking business, TO be conducted IN
Clapp's building now occupied by NJ.
Peyser's Dry Goods House. Mr. Clapp
is SO we'll known on Puget Sound that
farther mention OF hiIn would Dc to most
people superfiuous. His arrival here
from New York fifteen years or more
since, a penuiless lad. his subsequent
successful career in this city as proprie
tor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, his up
ward course thereafter in ClGlam county
in the mercantile and general trading
business, in the course OF which he has
amassed handsome fortUne-ali these
are we'll known. Frank has, 10y lively
business sagaciiy, y activity and energy
and strict attention to business. amassed
wealth with a rapidity that startles older
aud more easy-going business men. His
business methods are so correct -withal,
and so upright, that his credit is as good
as gold wherever he hGsdealings-so that
any banking institution with which his
name is connected will derive a subsgan-
tial standing thereby. He still retains
his business interests ut Dupge ness, and
his property there, but viii add to his
property in this city 4 business ventnie
in which lie can proftabiy employ a
large amount Of money. MIR Feurbach
comes from North Yakima, and has the
highest Recommendations by bankers oi
experience. He invested III residence
property here some months ago, ana will
now settle among rs, bringing his sur,
plus capital here for Investment. The
new firm viii be under the name and
style of Clapp & Feurbach. ia it Uill
do a goodly amountof business from the
start, Is evident from The fact that If vil
bring considerable outsidr business thai
has never come here before-and alsc
| because our town is growiaE, and the
Gemaud for money isc1us.alily growing
! ho bank we already have is IL model II
/ &c l;.o 18th q. -, r-!i., l,ifif,- nd p=tS-
perity-bus The town is fast growing
above ard teyond is limit fer business
The new bank will have an authorized
capital of $l0O,COo.